late night talk (was Jerry Williams)

[Dan.Strassberg]

Come on, Donna: As a radio personality--even if mainly on only one
station--WOR--JEAN Shepard was FAR better known than was station (and
regional network) owner JOHN Shepard. Since you are the world's
leading expert on John Shepard, I will have to accept your assessment
that he merits the adjective "great," but to radio listeners, and even
to a radio geek like me, if I were going to assign "great" to only one
of them, it would be to Jean; I actually listened to him and found the
weird world he created in words to be thoroughly engrossing. My
father, who scarcely listened to the radio for anything but news,
listened regularly to Jean, and, as far as I could tell, really
enjoyed his program. That certainly gives Jean Separd a rating of
exceptional in my book. As for John Shepard, he was an
ownership/management guy. How many of the people who listened to his
stations and networks even knew he existed? I did not until you
brought him to my attention--decades after his death.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: late night talk (was Jerry Williams)


> Do any of you recall Jean Shepherd (not the late great John Shepard
> 3rd, but the NY-based talk host and raconteur) on the air at WNAC in
> Boston?  I just found an article from late 1965 that says he was...
> but I truly don't recall because I was only listening to WBZ and
> WMEX back then...